Wednesday, September 20, 2017

HI-SEAS Crew

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Two women and four men spent eight months in Mars-like isolation so that NASA could learn more about the effect that sort of mission will have on people. These six people are:

Laura Lark - originally from a small farm, she went to Brown University, then did 5 years as a software engineer for Google, plays Irish fiddle tunes

Ansley Barnard - she has designed aerodynamic bodywork for Indy 500 cars, and worked in engineering optimization at Ford Motor Co.; she hopes to become an astronaut

Samuel Payler - pursuing a doctorate in astrobiology, works on instruments to use on Mars basalt rock

James Bevington - a researcher in space life and statistics, now working for International Space University

Joshua Erhrlich - a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin, he worked on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch vehicle

Brian Ramos - graduated from International Space University, has both biomedical and engineering degrees

Each is highly accomplished, each one has a website, and there's a good chance that each one is personable and easy to be with. After eight intense/weird months, everybody came out alive.

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